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LOL so you are doing analysis on highly questionable data? What the point?

Also the sample sizes are different so dividing one against another is bogus... (but thats my j-ness coming out - and I don't have a lot of it)...

No; in this case it made sense since I divided percentages against one another (so sample size is already taken into account).

Thus, dividing the Norm percentage against the Gifted percentage is showing deviation between.
For example, INTPs represent only 3.54% of the sample group in total (the way I interpreted the table), but account for 12.03% of the sample group's gifted. If there were an even distribution, one would expect that they would only represent 3.54% of the gifted, thus dividing the first against the latter means that there are 3.40 times more gifted INTPs than one would expect from their distribution.

I don't completely trust the figures either, but my post wasn't about discussing their validity. If - and only if - these numbers were in fact correct, dividing the gifted against the norm would show the deviation.
(I hope this made some kind of sense - if it didn't feel free to point it out.)

Originally Posted by tinkerbell

Sorry AVIS......I didn't see the bottom bit... Not a ball breaker honest...

Sorry didn't see your bottom bit myself this time I just made that table out of curiosity because I wanted to have some figures. Being the lethargic poster I am, there were in fact some days between Marm's post and my reply to it

No; in this case it made sense since I divided percentages against one another (so sample size is already taken into account).

Thus, dividing the Norm percentage against the Gifted percentage is showing deviation between.
For example, INTPs represent only 3.54% of the sample group in total (the way I interpreted the table), but account for 12.03% of the sample group's gifted. If there were an even distribution, one would expect that they would only represent 3.54% of the gifted, thus dividing the first against the latter means that there are 3.40 times more gifted INTPs than one would expect from their distribution.

I don't say that I trust the figures, but that wasn't the point I was trying to make. If - and only if - these numbers were in fact correct, dividing the gifted against the norm would show the deviation.

My point is 3.54% is the % of the c5000, the other proportion isn't from that number.... the gifted sample doens't state if it from the normative sample or seperate... it looks seperate... but then you can't do the divide by because the total sample is different....

Personaly speaking:

Nnorm + Ngift = total sample

(%norm*Nnorm) - (%gift*Ngift) = total difference

Total Diff/total sample = % difference

THIS IS A SAD CONVERSATION Sorry ooober anality on my part... the data is shonky (or should I say not reorted well) all of this is accademic

My point is 3.54% is the % of the c5000, the other proportion isn't from that number.... the gifted sample doens't state if it from the normative sample or seperate... it looks seperate... but then you can't do the divide by because the total sample is different....

That's exactly the crucial part that remains vague. At first glance, I thought it was from the same sample, but thanks again for pointing it out.

THIS IS A SAD CONVERSATION Sorry ooober anality on my part... the data is shonky (or should I say not reorted well) all of this is accademic

LOL

Au contraire I've always thought ENTPs love this sort of discussion as much as I do